Build Your Own Wind and Solar Power System
Posted on October 19, 2009
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Here’s a great guide showing you how to build your own wind and solar power system.
Power companies are charging ridiculously high costs for their electricity because they know that no matter how much they ask you to pay for it, you will HAVE to pay it. Who can live without electricity, right? The guide helps you get out of this exploitation circle and teach you everything you need to know to reduce your utility bills to $10 a month or even eliminate them completely. Even better: if you produce
more energy than you use, the power company will actually pay you for your electricity!
Saving Tropical Hardwoods From the Landfill
Posted on August 9, 2009
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If you’ve thought of purchasing furniture or other things made of a tropical hardwood, you know how very expensive they are. That’s fair enough, since they take so very long to grow and then shipped a great distance which is costly. You may not be surprised to learn that it is quite common for goods to arrive in crates and on pallets made from these very same expensive woods.
And since they arrive like that, for this wood to be thrown away, put into a landfill or burned. Some furniture makers have noticed this and have begun recycling these crates and pallets into good quality furniture. This is an excellent example of up-cycling, a way where a low value item is turned into something of much greater value by a little bit of creativity.
Why Climate Change Will Keep Getting Worse
Posted on July 26, 2009
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As if the increased levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere were not enough to worry anyone silly, climate models predict that even if another drop of fossil fuels were never burned again, things would continue getting worse for quite awhile before they got better.
This is due to the feedback effect that has already been observed in several places in the world. One prime example are the “drunken forests” of Siberia. Though the permafrost that these spruce trees grow upon is always in a state of flux, the rate of melting has increased dramatically in recent years, causing a great deal of damage in areas where people have built upon the permafrost.
More importantly, there’s a great deal of methane trapped in that permafrost, as it melts, this gas that’s known to be 45 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, is released into the atmosphere, making it melt even faster.
The Increase of Landfill Methane
Posted on June 19, 2009
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While the concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by nearly twice since the beginning of the industrial revolution in the mid-18th century, the amount of methane in the atmosphere has increased by nearly twice that amount in the same time period.
This is a problem for the atmosphere, since this particular greenhouse gas just happens to be many times more efficient at trapping the sun’s long-wave radiation that’s responsible for planetary warming.
Landfills are just one service way that excess planetary methane is created. Though significant amounts are also caused by all the collected flatus of cows and volcanoes, landfill-generated methane is extremely powerful. It is, in fact, over 70 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. It is expected that methane released today will still be detectable in the atmosphere a century in the future.
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